analyzing the business and technology of the web
When I wrote my form overhaul article in December I was planning to create some examples of using style to bring forms into next gen web technology. I recently read an article that did just that. Maybe sometime I’ll get around to it. For now, here’s my closest example
For tips on form layout, see the following article:
The Man in Blue > Experiments > Form Layout. Please read this and stop polluting the web.
UPDATE: Here’s another great article on form design from LukeW. Enjoy.
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I am getting very unhappy with the performance of del.icio.us. I would like to see some analytics concerning their uptime since they were acquired. It’s getting ridiculous.
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I’ve mentioned a couple of times (1, 2) how I am discontinuing my usage of digg. Aside from the fact 70% of the content is worthless to me I am not a fan of the community that powers it. Chris Pirillo has recently brought up a good point: Who has the worst commenters, Digg or Slashdot? Well I have not used slashdot for a long time because of its hideous design and content organization so I am not qualified to comment on that.
But, I sure can comment on the lameness of Digg commenters. I have been flamed several times on there. Sometimes it’s because Digg lets me post duplicate articles and other times it is because people disagree with what’s in the article. So, for that reason I quit reading Digg comments. And then the lack of consistent content rankings was all I could take.
Just use Memorandum
Digg vs. Slashdot (GnomeREPORT)
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I was looking through some CSS gallery sites and stumbled upon Liquid Designs.
I saw the first 10 entries in their gallery and wanted to see some more. So naturally I’m looking for a categorized list, maybe by month, or week. Instead I find little text that says “Previous Entries.” What happened if I didn’t want to go through them all, what if Liquid would have just made an entire page with screenshots galore for ever month, or week or however they want to organize it. That would make it much easier on the user.
I have seen this on other sites as well. You’d think that if a site’s purpose is to showcase great CSS designs, they’d make it a little easier to view them, hence the purpose of going to that particular site over many other similar galleries.
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You gotta love rumors. The rumor of the day today is Yahoo’s announced purchase of social news site Digg. If this is true it’s a horrible move on Yahoo’s part. Sure, they are trying to snatch up ‘Web 2.0′ companies but Digg is not worthy. Digg provides little value to an average user. Digg proved a concept of socializing aggregation of content but they implemented poorly. Most of the stories suck. There are flaws in the application. The comments on it are worthless flaming for the poor soul who posted an article they found interesting.
Flickr and del.icio.us are value creating services. Yahoo purchased Flickr because our parents use flickr. Our parents will be using something like delicious soon. My parents could care less about Digg.
Plus a $30M price tag? Wow. Give me $20k and I’ll build the same thing. I know it’s not about the technology but the user base. Apparently Yahoo has forgotten that they already have a user base. And just because people like myself may use digg, the acquisition is not going to move me into Yahoo’s camp. I’ve resisted Yahoo after both of their previous ‘web 2.0′ purchases.
We had a comment by Danny Kurian on a recent post of mine concerning Yahoo’s acknowledgment of its second tier status in the search sector. He said that this claim alienates core developers on Yahoo’s search team. Is this not worse for internal morale?
Kevin Burton’s Feed Blog: Yahoo Will Buy Digg – Announcement Early Next Week
technorati tags: yahoo, business, digg
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